For a little lighter fare, here are some funny church signs I came across on Flickr. On a side note, Flickr's not a bad place to get pictures from. It's easy to search for Creative Commons-licensed images that you're allowed to use, and WP has a Flickr embed block, so you just paste in the URL without having to create an image block.

Funny Church Signs
au_tiger01, Flickr

How will you spend eternity – smoking or non-smoking?

How's that for hellfire and brimstone? I had to look up Methodism because I wasn't sure what their particular brand of Protestantism entailed, but yup, sounds like they are the hellfire and brimstone types.

Funny Church Signs
au_tiger01, Flickr

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

I'm not quite sure what they were trying to prove with this sign. There are few things that are a match for natural stupidity, but I suspect that it was probably AI that they intended to insult.

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Tina, Flickr

Thou shalt not park here

Thou shalt not covet thy pastor's parking spot...

Uhh... Should we be doing that in church?
David Smith, Flickr

Pastor's love celebration March 15-16 7pm nightly, climaxing March 18

Perhaps a consequence of not teaching sex ed in the bible belt is that no one ever taught you what a love celebration climaxing might refer to... Bring on the orgy!

Funny Church Signs
au_tiger01, Flickr

Staying in bed shouting, Oh God! does not constitute going to church.

I don't know, if we're going to be climaxing anyway, at home in bed is probably a more suitable location for it!

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Steven Tomsic, Flickr

Everyday we pitch our tent one step closer to eternity

And speaking of not knowing sex talk...

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genebrooks, Flickr

Why the hate-on for "charasma"? And also, the hate-on for hyphens? Are hyphens too "charasmatic" for their particular attempts at soul-winning?

I also find the juxtaposition of "love driven" and "sin hating"/"devil fighting", as that's probably a pretty good indicator that they should be adding "hypocrisy-embracing" into the mix.

Funny Church Signs
au_tiger01, Flickr

Free coffee. Everlasting life. Yes membership has its privileges.

I'll pass on the eternal life, but if they have donuts with the coffee, that could be interesting...

Happy Thursday!